Maison des Esclaves
Also known as House of Slaves
1776
Colonial
museum
The Maison des Esclaves is the eighteenth-century slave-trader house that stands on the eastern shore of Île de Gorée off Dakar, the last surviving example of the building type that defined Gorée during the Atlantic slave trade. The…
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- 1962
The building opened as a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade under its first curator, Joseph Ndiaye.
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